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Ortegas sees it has no Federation badges, and that its shields were up, while Spock detects multiple life forms he was unable to identify. Pike informs the landing party and has them beamed back aboard. In orbit, the Enterprise detects an unidentified ship. It was the site of a massacre, not an evacuation, with blood trails showing the victims being dragged to that location… but there was no sign of their bodies. La'an then finds something, and calls Una and the others over.

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Una spreads the team out, leading one half the other sees a room with cracked glass, only to be given a slight jump scare by a barking dog. Una wonders if it was a rushed evacuation, and La'an recognizes blast marks, meaning if they did rush, they did so while under fire. Ensign Todd can detect no Human life signs. Una goes to prep a landing party, and orders La'an to join her.īeaming to the surface, the colony is deserted there were supposed to be several hundred people there. The captain orders him to report it to Starfleet, while telling the crew that protocol dictated they investigate on the ground, and make no assumptions until they gathered intelligence. Pike asks if it was accidental, but Spock is unable to say. Spock speculates the nearby brown dwarf might be disrupting communications, but soon finds the true cause: the colony's communications satellite has been destroyed. Pike wonders where the 'welcome wagon' is, and Christina at communications reports no signals coming from the surface, with the colony logs indicating the last transmission being two days earlier. As she takes her station, Ortegas reports from the helm that they were in orbit. Una thinks closure had its reasons, and Starfleet had resources, but La'an cuts her off, saying she was not going to allow a doctor inside her head to try and 'fix' her she was not broken, she was fine. La'an waves it off as 'no big deal', and that the past was the past. La'an arrives on the bridge, where Una notes she is not wearing her commemoration pin. ' Challenge accepted,' is Uhura's answer.

Hemmer is not impressed, saying that if she truly wanted to impress him, she would do a lot better than theorize. Uhura, however, is enjoying the work, saying that linguistics and engineering were very similar, in that they were dependent on how seemingly unrelated systems communicated. Hemmer gives her points for that, remarking on how most cadets labored through their rotation to engineering while dreaming of command. Uhura proves him wrong by stating it had been invented by Zigwel Orgon in 2234 and first used after the Crestbrock mining collapse on Titan, and that it used charged positron rods to stabilize the ion matrix, which then filtered the air. Uhura replies simply it was an air filter, earning a contemptuous reply from the chief engineer about how cadets never read the assignment material in advance.

Walking through the ship, Hemmer quizzes Uhura about the essential purpose of the AP 350 device. ' As we honor the lives that have been given, let us also be grateful to be still on the journey,' he concludes. For those left behind, they would wear the insignia of past ships they had served on. Exploration could exact a heavy toll, and there was nothing more devastating to a captain than losing a member of the crew. Many of them knew someone who had made the ultimate sacrifice: officers, scientists, and civilians who had given their lives for the hope of galactic peace. Throughout the ship, the other members of the crew are wearing similar pins, including Captain Pike, who addresses the entire ship. In her quarters, La'an looks down at a pin commemorating the loss of the SS Puget Sound, the colony ship she had grown up on. As we prepare for our arrival, we pause to remember Starfleet Remembrance Day.' Without our assistance, the air on this remote colony will become unbreathable in a matter of weeks.

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The Enterprise is currently en route to deliver an atmospheric processor upgrade to Finibus III. Summary Teaser ' Security officer's log, stardate 3177.3.

5.5.2 Pike Maneuver animation references.

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